Alcoholic Party Sips: 25 Fruity Drinks

Get the party started with these delicious fruity alcoholic drinks! We've got simple cocktail and drink ideas for all your favorite fruits, from raspberries and pomegranates to bananas and cranberries. If you want to serve a few nonalcoholic drinks as well, check out these refreshing summer drinks.

Blueberry Ginger Bellini

Muddling is a traditional bartending technique where herbs and/or fruit are crushed, releasing their full flavor into a cocktail. Here we muddle blueberries and ginger with sugar and lemon to add another dimension to our take on a bellini.

Strawberry-Coconut Daiquiri

You'll feel like you're on a tropical getaway with this refreshing strawberry-coconut cocktail. To keep it cool in warmer weather, freeze fresh berries for 30 minutes before blending. For a nonalcoholic version, omit the rum and add 1/2 cup additional strawberries.

Black Pepper-Raspberry Sorbet with Prosecco

Chef James Holmes of Olivia, in Austin, topped raw oysters with this sweet-savory sorbet before deciding it would make an excellent cocktail with Prosecco. A good-quality, store-bought raspberry sorbet is a fine shortcut.

Summer Breeze

Islay-based, French-born Martine Nouet is renowned for her whisky expertise and her talent for pairing the spirit with food. (In her native country, shes known as The Queen of the Still.) "Shes a describer of whiskies," says Mark Canlis, "and one of the best tasters Ive ever met." Nouet created this fruity mix of Scotch, muddled raspberries, and raspberry liqueur, plus a splash of club soda.

Watermelon-Tequila Cocktails

When watermelon is in abundance, this is a great way to use it. Bobby Flay purées seedless watermelon chunks, then strains the juice through a sieve and mixes it with silver tequila, sugar syrup, blueberries, mint, and fresh lime juice.